FAIRLY WELL ISN'T WELL ENOUGH.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 306, 28 December 1898, Page 7

FAIRLY WELL ISN'T WELL ENOUGH.

■1. us sa .y - that your wages are S^+v: shilling 3 a week. You have] H tft^K har d done your best, and feel lm^\ou have earned your money. 9 ' crooi Now, imagine that when ' H^'lay night comes your employer IP and haws and wants to put you. S lf!rith fifteen. I'll .be bound you | id M think yourself hardly treated. ] HSldt are the great strikes in this j I .^fJ commonly about? Why in I p fashion they are about .wages tfi^oTirs- it comes to the same thing: i f Jf understood that the writer uses IP ™. r nf .t as an illustration. of another I tlUMhat is all. What is that other I We will work it out of the folI fSn^ personal statement, ' I Nearly all my life,' says Mrs Sarah ?« \hv 'I have been subject to attacks j 1 f biliousness accompanied with, sick- j I = but '■■got on fairly well up to -the.. I JS part of ISS2. At this time I be-! I to feel heavy, dull, and tired, with I ? fl ll-°"one, sinking sensation. My I kin was. sallow and the whites of my , I fves'of a yellow tinge.' ■ ■ • I y 4s everybody knows, or ought to j li ,-iw the" colouring matter was. bile. IThe 'lW being torpid and therefore) ijjijjo. to remove the bile from the , ?j oO a°it entered the skin and showed ! •fcelf'on the surface. But the disJolouration isn't the worst mischief done by'the vagabond bile, containing many poisonous waste elements. It' disorders the whole system and sgts m/troublesome and dangerous symptoms, some of which the lady names. ■• 1- had a bad taste in the mouth,' E ji e goes on to say, 'and. in the morn•ina particularly was often 'very ! sick, retching so violently that I dreaded to f ee the dawn_ of day.;. 'lly appetite was poor and after eating I had pain at nry chest and: side. Frequently I couldn't bring myself to touch food at all. My stomach jeemed to rebel at the very thought of it-' ' - ■•:: [This was bad, but the stomach was j]<rht, nevertheless. More food would iave made more pain, more indigested matter to ferment and turn sour, more of. a load for the sleepy liver, more poison for the nerves, kidueys and skin. And yet without • the food, how was she to live? It: was like being grbund between the upper and the nether millstones.] 'After thjisl' runs the letter, 'I had great pain and fluttering at the heart. Sometimes I would'have fits of dizziness and go ofE into a faint whicH left me quite prostrated. Then m3 r nerves became so upset and excitable that I got no prpper sleep at night, and on account of loss ;of . strength I was obliged to lie in bed all day for days together. I-went to one doctor after aaother, and attended at" Bartholomew's and the University Hospitals, but.was none the better for it all.' - ■ •| 'In September, 1883, my husband read in "Reynolds' Newspaper" about Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup, and got me a bottle of it. After taking it for three days I felt relieved. Encouraged and cheered by this I kept on taking the' Syrup, and in a short ' tiiri'e all the pain and- distress abated, and I was well—better than I had ever been. That is ten years ago, and §ince then I have never ailed anything. With sincere thanks. I am, yours truly (Signed) Mrs Sarah Dalby, 93, Tottenham' Eoad. Kingsland, London, N., January 2nd, 1894.' ' Now," run your eye back to the first sentence of' Mrs Dalby's letter and you ■will come upon these 'I got on £ airly-well;'" etc. This is the sad thought. ' Her life has always been be^n. at a d^scimnt. She has always got I?£*. than lier clue. She lost pert of her health—wages. Do you take my meaning? Of course.. Whatever may be our differences of opinion as to the, rights of capital and the value of labour it is certain that every human being is entitled to perfect, health—without reduction, without drawback; All the more, as nobody else loses what one person thus gains. No, no. On the contrary, a perfectly healthy person is a benefit and a blessing to all who are brought into relations with him. - < •

t 'But do all have such health? God ielp us, no. Very, very few. Why not? Ah, the answer is too big. I can't give it to-day. To the vast crowd who only get on 'fairly well' I.tender my sympathy, and advise a trial of the 'remedy mentioned by Mrs Dalby. ■' -•' ■